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Hunt for art to take centre stage at Coastival The deadline is fast approaching for any local artists to put forward ideas to create new pieces of work to be commissioned for next year’s Scarborough arts festival Coastival. Coastival organiser Create has got funding for four new £5,000 art commissions on the theme ‘Exploring the […]

Former Poet Laureate Sir Andrew Motion will perform specially created new work in a one-off, intimate performance at IWM North, part of Imperial War Museums, timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Motion will perform the premiere reading of this new poem within the spectacular surroundings of […]

This summer, Free Range Shows will showcase some of Britain’s most innovative and compelling up and coming artists and designers. Now in its fifteenth year, Free Range Shows has grown in prominence becoming a key diary feature for the creative industry to observe the works of the future creative elite. Each week a different discipline from fashion, design, photography, […]

Beverley Folk Festival is not just all about music. “Words on the Westwood” is a recent development of the highly successful and long-established festival, and will include creative writing workshops, the Spoken Word, talks and readings. All these will form part of an exciting menu of events prior to and during the festival weekend. The […]

Search for art commissions for next year’s event Local artists and performers are being offered the chance to create exciting new pieces of work to be unveiled as part of next year’s Scarborough arts festival Coastival. Coastival organiser Create has got funding for four new art commissions on the theme ‘Exploring the Yorkshire Coast’. Now […]

Last year I went to the Fairport Convention’s festival at Cropredy in Oxfordshire. I was there to do interviews for the ‘Folk Roots List’ website and for EntsWeb. Amongst others I met up with singer/songwriter Edwina Hayes from East Yorkshire and the hyperactive band Blackbeard’s Tea Party from York. As both Edwina and Blackbeard’s are […]

The 2015 Beverley Folk Festival has a stellar line-up of award winning artists, with 10, several of which are multi-award winners over the past years, as well as two nominated in this year’s BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. READ MORE

The 9th Burton Agnes Jazz & Blues Festival is taking place this summer, from Friday 3rd July to Sunday 5th July 2015. Being such an intimate and bijou event, festival goers are encouraged to purchase their tickets well in advance to avoid being disappointed.

Organisers look to recruit army The organisers of Scarborough’s popular Coastival arts festival are looking for a small army of volunteers to help run this year’s event. On Friday 13th and Saturday 14th, Scarborough will burst into life with a festival of music, theatre, comedy and visual arts for Coastival 2015. But in order to […]

Arts events scheduled for 2015 and 2016 The popular Coastival arts festivals will be held in Scarborough in 2015 and 2016, it was announced today. In keeping with tradition, a mini, ‘one-day’ Coastival will be held next year before the full three-day event returns in 2016. Excited organisers confirmed that the events would go ahead, […]

NorthWolds Arts & Music has announced its first event which is a concert featuring the internationally known singer and guitarist Bob Fox. Bob is well known on the festival and acoustic music scenes. He has appeared in the West End as ‘The Songman’ for the National Theatre’s production of Michael Morpurgo’s ‘Warhorse’. He is currently […]

Last weekend I was at Moonbeams Festival which is an annual event held at Wold Top Brewery in East Yorkshire. I was unable to stay for more than a single afternoon there but I really enjoyed what was on offer. You can read all about it and listen to some interviews that I did at http://www.folkrootslist.co.uk/2014/07/live-chats-at-moonbeams-festival-2014/

In June I spent a lovely weekend at the Beverley Folk Festival. While there I was able to chat with Chris Wade (Artistic Director) about the running of the festival and the direction it is taking. I also spoke with some of the traders, the first-aiders and Leila who was organising the Moonbeam Sessions. You […]